The BioBrick™ RFC Process

Through its BioBrick™ RFC Process, the BioBricks Foundation hosts discussions and editorial work around the development of technical standards. Our BioBrick™ RFC list contains 50+ technical documents to date. Through the BioBrick™ RFC Process, we also host an email discussion list.

describe best practices or protocols (i.e. a protocol for assembling two parts)

provide information (i.e. a description of how to design transcriptional terminators)

simply comment, extend, or replace an earlier RFC

RFCs are static documents or digital objects like videos intended to get an idea, proposed standard, or method out to the rest of the community for comment. RFCs are numbered, for ease of referencing, and the numbers are assigned by the BBF.

Instructions for requesting a BBF RFC number, preparing an RFC, and submitting an RFC to the BBF are described in BBF RFC 0.

BBF RFC 74: "Biological integrated circuits”—a framework for devices using fixed and variable parts, a methodology for rapid prototyping of systems using these devices, and a notation to describe the resulting devices and systems

BBF RFC 84: Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 1.0.0

BioBrick™ Research and Development

The BioBricks Foundation delivers its BioBrick™ Research and Development in two ways. First, we do this through technical standards related to measurement of genetic functions inside cells via the BioBricks Foundation's partnership with BIOFAB. The BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (BIOFAB) was founded in December 2009 as the world's first biological design-build facility. This professionally staffed public-benefit facility was initiated by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is led by bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The BIOFAB is operated in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the BioBricks Foundation (BBF), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). The second way we deliver our BioBrick™ Research and Development is through our coordination of the BIOFAB's industrial partners program.